Played it for a 20 minutes? Got to a level, where I managed to push a giant vase on top of myself and got stuck, and apparently I'd misremembered the password as "osc4ro" but that didn't work. (you were playing as blue girl)
The intro goes kinda fast. You gotta remember that for first-time players, they're not just reading the dialogue, they're also trying to memorize the names and faces of the characters and see what's happening in the images.
The follower mechanics are interesting, but they sure take some getting used to. WASD doesn't seem to work with all the commands? Seems like an oversight.
I like most of the character designs, but clown girl's so clashing that she kinda hurts to look at.
For the tutorial, it might make sense to play as the clown girl to start with until you've got basic movement and mechanics like keys explained; you'd be able to keep things a little more simple since she doesn't have a kid companion to wrangle at the same time.
Graphics are generally passable, but the running animations stand out as really bad compared to everything else. I'd bump them up to 4 frames personally, but if you wanna stick with just 3, try looking at 8-bit Mega Man's run cycle for inspiration.